By the end of the term, the students are expected:
- to have gained an awareness of the gendered dynamics in the political transformations of contemporary Latin America from a historical perspective and of the patterns of women’s inclusion in representative institutions;
- to have acquired a systematic understanding of gender relations and the perspectives to integrate gender as a variable in the analysis of Latin American politics as well as in other regions (including Turkey) as a basis for comparative studies;
- to have cultivated critical insights into the political and social movements, parties and governments to assess how they approach gender equality issues, and the policies pertaining to the private sphere and women’s public participation;
- to demonstrate a scholarly ability to deal with the problem of political exclusion and social justice from a gender perspective;
- to be able to approach the intersections of gender with other structures of power to analyze the patriarchal constraints for empowerment during democratization.